The Foraker Group

Foraker has been publishing surveys to support human resources within Alaska nonprofits since 2002. Our 2014 survey is now open and we urge you to participate in it. The deadline for submitting your suvery is Friday, February 21.

2014 features include:

• Full survey components – salary and benefits – will be reported for the third consecutive survey.

• All benefit data entry fields have been reviewed and updated to better reflect current options and practices.

• Benchmark job descriptions have been edited for currency.

• 2012 survey respondents can review their entries from that year and bring data current reducing the time and effort required to submit a 2014 response. No data will appear only if a pull down menu of options has been changed to better reflect benefit trends. New questions have been added about total compensation (for all respondents) and health care (for organizations with 50 or more employees).

• Pricing for a survey report has remained flat since 2010 and is greatly below other market surveys:

  • $75.00 – Foraker Partners that participate in the survey

  • $150.00 – Foraker Partners that do not participate

  • $250.00 – Other nonprofit organizations that participate in the survey

  • $300.00 – Other nonprofit organizations that do not participate

• The Executive Summary will again be provided at no cost to all participants.

Some of you are huge supporters and users of our surveys and use the data we provide to:

• Set salaries for new positions in your organization

• Review your over-all salary structure for comparability with like organizations

• Compare your benefit offerings with those of similar organizations

• Satisfy IRS requirements to support salaries for senior staff at higher compensation levels with survey data of comparable positions

In addition, we will evaluate trends and provide comparative tables to show what’s happened in our sector from one survey period to the next.

The survey is open for participation and can be accessed directly by clicking here or from the Foraker home page by selecting Salary and Benefits Survey under Quick Links.

If you are a 2012 participant, enter the e-mail and password used in 2012 – the system will provide the password if needed. If you need additional assistance on access, contact Rebecca Savidis at 907-743-1210.

We hope you will participate. The more data we collect the better the quality of the information we can report.